Comments on: The Kalimah & the Shahādah in Various Languages

By: striver

striver — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:25:10 +0000

The Turkish translation sounds a bit funny.

I think the first section of the kalimah sounds better as “Allah’tan baska ilah yoktur”, rather than what you’ve got up there, which translates to: “There is no God, there is only Allah”. Allahu ‘Alam.

By: KJ

KJ — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:11:51 +0000

The tagalog baybayin image is wrong. The translation of the written script is “watang ibang da yos kaya Allah si mohammad ang sugo ni Allah” The script is close, but wrong.

Mali ang image ng baybayin script. Ang salin ay “watang ibang da yos kaya Allah si mohammad ang sugo ni Allah” Malapit naman yon pero mali.

By: abuaisha

abuaisha — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:01:09 +0000

What can I say George except ‘Gratias!’

By: George Carty

George Carty — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:28:33 +0000

Since you’ve included Esperanto, I’ll add Interlingua:

Il ha necun Deo que Allah e Muhammad es le messagero de Allah

By: Ria Fariana

Ria Fariana — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:13:27 +0000

Assalamu’alaikum,
For Indonesian translation, usually we use only ‘Tidak ada Tuhan selain Allah, Muhammad adalah utusan Allah’. In some extent, for example among people who understand Islam better, they will not use ‘Tuhan’ as the trasnlation of ‘Ilah’ in Laa Ilaha Ilallah’ because as explained by Tim Abubakar above that the meaning of ‘Illah’ is different with ‘Rab’. So, they prefer use ‘Tidak ada Ilah kecuali Allah, Muhammad adalah utusan Allah/Muhammad adalah Rasul Allah (Rasulullah)’. Then they will explain the meaning of Ilah that is so much deeper than ‘Tuhan’. For Muhammad Rasulullah is also became part of Indonesian vocabulary and Indonesian people are familiar with it. I hope this explanation is useful to complete your good work, insya Allah. Well done, bro:)

By: Tim Abubakar

Tim Abubakar — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:19:30 +0000

Assalaamu alaykum….

The word “ilah” in Arabic connotes differently, in a deeper sense, from “rab”. So that if your going to literally translate it to Tausug vernacular, it should be -”wayruun tuhan mapatut sumbahun malaingkan Allah, hi Muhammad in rasul Niya. However, this is the most appropriate translation to Tausug vernacular – ” wayruun dugaing tuhan mapatut pagtag-iypunan malaynkan Allah….

Likewise in Tagalog Language – “walang diyos na nararapat sambahin maliban sa Allah, si Muhammad ang sugo Niya.”

By: Abu Sakeenah

Abu Sakeenah — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:38:04 +0000

I feel that a better translation for English would be “There is no deity except God, Muhammed is the Messenger of God!”

By: abu Abdullah Isa

abu Abdullah Isa — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:37:46 +0000

Selaam `alaykum wa Rahmatu’L-Laah wa BarakaatuH Habibi,

May Allaah bless and prosper all of your efforts that are done solely for His Pleasure, aameen.

JazaakaAllaahu Khayr for such a useful blog maahsaaAllaah.

I found the following translation to correct all the way up to the last “ve” and then it should have said “elçisidir”.

“Turkish (Türkçe) – Tanıklık ederim ki hiçbir İlah yoktur, ancak Allah vardır ve yine tanıklık ederim ki Muhammed onun kulu ve peygamberidir”

I know you love being correct all the time, so I felt the urge to let you know that this is the (more) correct way of translating it.

“Peygamber” is “Prophet”, whereas “Elçi” is “Messenger”.

Turkish (Türkçe) – Tanıklık ederim ki hiçbir İlah yoktur, ancak Allah vardır ve yine tanıklık ederim ki Muhammed onun kulu ve peygamberidir

shoud read:

Turkish (Türkçe) – Tanıklık ederim ki hiçbir İlah yoktur, ancak Allah vardır ve yine tanıklık ederim ki Muhammed onun kulu ve elçisidir *

wa’S-Selaamu `alaykum.